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Australia among top seeds for France 2019 draw after rankings update

Kuala Lumpur: Australia will enter Saturday's FIFA Women's World Cup France 2019 official draw as one of the six seeded teams, after the latest FIFA World Rankings update was revealed on Friday.

The final update, issued a day before the official ceremony on Île Seguin in the western suburbs of Paris, made few changes to the existing world order, but confirmed the Matildas as part of Pot 1, which features the world's top six teams.

Alen Stajcic's squad, Asia's highest ranked side in sixth, will join the United States, Germany, England, Canada and host nation France as seeded teams in the draw, dramatically decreasing their prospects of being placed in a 'group of death'......